A tribute to our Navy SEAL snipers

Captain Richard Phillips paid tribute to the Navy and the SEAL snipers who shot and killed three pirates during rescue operations today.
Here’s a video clip from a recent documentary on Navy SEAL snipers. God bless ‘em:
The Navy SEALs page is here.
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Details from Bloomberg News:
Sharpshooters firing from the fantail of a U.S. Navy destroyer killed three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain in a lifeboat, ending a five-day ordeal that unfolded amid a surge in piracy off Somalia’s coast.
Richard Phillips, 53, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was untied, pulled from the lifeboat and brought unharmed aboard the USS Bainbridge, said Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
The Navy acted because Phillips’s life was threatened by pirates who were aiming weapons at him, Gourtney said. The on- scene commander “had seconds” to make a decision, he said.
…The Bainbridge had the lifeboat under tow shortly after 7 p.m. local time, roughly an hour after sunset, according to Gortney and a Navy press release. The vessel was 25 to 30 meters away when special forces commandos opened fire, Gortney said.
“We pay a lot for their training,” Gortney said of the snipers. “We got a good return on their investment tonight.”
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WaPo reports on how the SEALs mission unfolded.
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happyscrapper said (#16):
So is most of the country. AP writes, quoted here,
Love it. Shoot first. Negotiate with the “moderate” pirates later.
I’m assuming the pirate that was off-ship at the time, regardless of his initial thoughts, was instantly transformed into a “moderate” pirate.
Aaar!
Why should anyone benefit politically?
As a nation we will benefit because pirates and their ilk will learn from the mistake of “messing with the nation” who can and does actually fight goons and thugs — except when the White House is occupied by spineless wimps like Carter (Iran) and Clinton (Somalia).
If I were in Capt Phillips’ shoes I would refuse any invite to go to the White House (no matter who the current occupant was) and would instead insist the CNO go to represent the SEALs — who wouldn’t go in order to preserve their anonymity — and accept the honors due them.
What took so long.
This is the kind of mission that the Navy Seals and Delta Force train for all the time.These guys can make head shots at over a mile all day long.
Once given the go a ahead, they did their job well.
“the American crew of the Maersk says that they waited too long before they had help from the U.S. Navy”
I think Barry Soetoro should learn from India how they take care of the Pirates that threaten their vessels here.
Not only did they sink the pirates vessel, they chased them all the way back to port.
They did not wait a week trying to talk to the terrorists from keeping the captain.
Yes! Way to go SEALs!
Yes! Way to go SEALs!
Salutes to every SEAL for a fantastic job. I’m sure they said, “Hey, on our lunch hour, let’s take out that pirate scum!” Met a couple of them during my AF time – quiet, confident, professional, just like DerKreiger said. Thanks SEAL Team and Navy!
Thank God we have people serving under our flag like these SEAL snipers.
I’m grateful that we got Capt Phillips back.
It was interesting and I felt it was under-reported that part of the ship’s cargo was carrying food aid for Catholic Relief Services intended for poor Rwandans.
This in the holy week that our President made his historic first Presidential visit to a house of worship to a mosque (the O’s hadn’t been to church since the election?), declared that we are not a Christian nation, and appointed a man to his faith-based and neighborhood (ACORN?) initiative who’s referred to the Pope as a “discredited leader”.
Nice.
The author of the AP piece that lgm references is Jennifer Loven.
Arrrrrrgh, no pieces of eight but only pieces of lead for yeeee matey!
Um…don’t lump Jesse Ventura in with Al Franken. They have completely different political views. Jesse is a Libertarian with some strange views and a big temper. Franken is a moron, that’s all. Just a moron. Big difference!
You are absolutely right! Jesse Ventura ran against “Skip” Humphrey and Norm Coleman, our illustrious Senator from this great state, who has voted on the wrong side of many important issues. I had no choice but to vote for Jesse. I guess a lot of Minnesotans felt the same way. Jesse did a decent job for Minnesota, but was very touchy and HATED the press (a good thing, in my opinion).
You are right, of course! Point taken.
I do walk tall as a Minnesotan…thank you very much. Oh, and Pueblo, is there some compelling reason why you feel the need to use so many capitals in your posts? They distract from your message and lose their potency when used too much. Just a friendly suggestion from a proud Minnesotan.
Errah, I think the Navy Seal Snipers are now going “Green”!!!! Returning Pirate scum back to the ground from which they came since April 2009″. Pieces O’ Lead instead of Pieces O’ Eight. Put that last remaining SOB in the life raft with his commrades and give him a paddle to return home with.
How exactly is Obama seen as decisive in this when he took so long to allow the commander on the scene to attempt to rescue the captain only if he thought he was in imminent danger of being shot. I would hope the commander would take it upon himself to take action without waiting for orders if he thought the captain was about to be killed.
The only way he could hamstring them any worse would be to tell them to take no action for any reason. Or to go way out there, order the captain shot!
LGM, its no big deal that the AP would give BO kudos for this operation. After all and by this time don’t you already know that the MSM is in the tank with BO? I just hope the Seals and other similar groups are not on the chopping block of things to trim down on BO’s military budget.
some more details, which of course, contradict what has been reported previously
more from MM’s favorite birdcage liner:
We should finish the job now and go to Somalia and take out their land bases.